Bultman Gets Personal at Marmonte Meet : Royal Shotputter Wins Title With State’s Best High-School Mark at 62 Feet

Dave Bultman of Royal High achieved the first in a series of personal goals at the Marmonte League track championships at Camarillo High on Friday night.

Bultman, a 6-0, 240-pound senior transfer student from Independence High in San Jose, boosted his personal best in the shotput to 62-0 to win the event. Bultman had thrown his previous best of 61-6 at the Northridge Relays in April.

Bultman, who also won the discus Tuesday (179-5), said the personal best was long overdue.

“I wanted to throw a PR here,” Bultman said. “It had been five weeks since my last PR so I needed this one tonight. This really helps my confidence going into the CIF meet.”

The easy-going Highlander should be confident. He has the top high school marks in the state in the shotput and discus (192-1), but he wants to throw farther.

“Sixty-six feet and 200. That’s what I’m shooting for,” he said.

That and a double victory at June’s state championships in Sacramento are his immediate goals.

In the team competition, league officials didn’t name a winner until more than an hour after the last event was run. Thousand Oaks apparently had clinched the title with a fourth-place finish in the 1,600 meter relay. But the Lancers were disqualified after anchor runner Mike Bogeyavac, who thought his team should have fared better, threw the baton in disgust after crossing the finish line.

The disqualification cost Thousand Oaks four points, giving the Lancers 103. Simi Valley, which finished second in the 1,600 relay, had 105 points to win the meet. Simi Valley shared the league championship, which is determined by a combination of league-meet and dual-meet records, with Thousand Oaks, which was the dual-meet champion.

Royal was third with 101 points, followed by Westlake (59), Channel Islands (34), Newbury Park (32), and Camarillo (28).

Mike Carnes of Simi Valley won the 100 meters (10.8) and the long jump (22-5) and anchored the 400 relay to victory in 41.8. Teammate Robert Harris won the 200 in 21.5, placed fourth in the 400 (49.4) and ran legs on both relays.

Doug Fairman of Thousand Oaks won his second straight league title in the 800 (1:57.6) and the 1,600 (4:25.7). Teammate Darren Bernard won the 400 (48.8), placed second in the 200 (21.9) and was third in the 100 (11.2).

Royal’s Stacy Gibson won the 300 meter intermediate hurdles in 38.8, placed second in the 110 high hurdles in 14.7, was second in the long jump in 22-2 and ran a leg on the victorious 1,600 relay team (3:19.8).

In the girls meet, Sharon Manship led Thousand Oaks to its eighth straight league title. The Lancers, the dual-meet champions, scored 135 1/2 points to 74 for Channel Islands. Westlake (71), Simi Valley (56), Camarillo (36 1/2), Royal (30) and Newbury Park (24) followed.

Manship won the 300-meter low hurdles in a personal best of 42.7, which puts her third on the national high school list this season. She also won the triple jump (36-11 1/2) and ran legs on the victorious 400- and 1,600-meter relays.

The Thousand Oaks girls ran a Valley-area season best of 48.7 in the 400 relay and 4:01.4 in the 1,600.

The Lancers’ Staci Leach won the 100 low hurdles in a personal best of 13.8.